As for me, things make sense in Quiet Time.

I just reread last Thursday’s post for week one. I laughed at the end on the last page I uploaded as an image. It’s the acknowledgement section. I had a list of top five instagram follows and in my own scratch writing I wrote @sallysifer. I laughed because of how true it is. I am my biggest fan.

Today I will share the first two posts from somethingmore. Click on the title somethingmore to purchase your own sexy soft cover that you can make scratchy notes in yourself. It will be fun as we can create our own book club together, organically. The book club is certain to include roadtrips to college towns, and include independent bookstores, coffeeshops, and maybe independently owned yoga studios. As well as boutique hotels. It will be fun, right? It will also include stickers…

First off, I’d like to share a link to what I really want to be doing right now which is listen to Andre Duquom’s collection of ‘best of’ from his 2023 podcasts. As mentioned, things make sense in Quiet Time. I listened to most of the podcast yesterday as I drove home.

On a side note, a theme that is showing up for me is ‘play’. It began with Adam Grant and his book Hidden Potential where he quantifies the topic of deliberate play. On that note, I will reference another documentary available on Apple TV called Underrated. The reason I was curious about underrated is because Adam Grant talks about Stephen Curry’s coach who never excelled at the sport and self reports that he didn’t practice the fundamentals because they were boring. The coach chose to coach fundamentals in a way that could support young players in developing their talents by teaching and practicing fundamentals using ‘play’, or making fun games out of fundamental drills.

In Andre’s podcast, it begins with a clip from Gabor Mate where he cites ‘play’ to be one of the three fundamentals of healthy living. He says ‘spontaneous play’ is a key fundamental for healthy growth and development in children. Another thing that stuck out was that children should not have to work for approval. I like that.

btw…the links are hyperlinked above in the bold print.

For today’s somethingmore post, I will share 12/31/19 post – the last post of 2019.

The reflective suggestion is: can you identify your state? Here is what I drew this morning:

Another reflective tool is taken from part III of storyitell – brainstorm. It is referenced in January 11, 2011. There are two posts today to bring us up to date with our organically sexy and fun book club…

Here is the link to the workbook I used to teach from this fall semester (which just ended Monday 1-8-24). The brainstorm I am referencing is pp 9-14.

That is the end of additional resources and reflection suggestions. Big topics will continually resurface.

Here are the book images: